SocraticGadfly: Irony Alert: Pats Spygate taping gofer fired for — spying!!!

February 18, 2008

Irony Alert: Pats Spygate taping gofer fired for — spying!!!

Meanwhile, Belichick goes spinmeister on Spygate

When an article like this starts with the claim from New England Patriots Coach, Bill Belichick, Coach Genius™, about former Pats videotaper Matt Walsh, that “he couldn’t pick him out of a line-up,” you know it’s time to put on your hip boots early.

Pats director of player personnel Scott Pioli piles on, claiming Walsh was fired for… wait for it… tape recording conversations he had with Pioli. I guess Walsh either didn’t learn the subtleties of audio tape espionage from Coach Genius™, or else BellyCheck isn’t as good a spymeister as he’d have us believe.

Otherwise, Coach Genius™ doesn’t sound very repentant.

First, he stick by his story when first caught, claiming his actions were within NFL rules as he interprets them. Second, on a 0-100 scale, he claims to have gotten at most one point of benefit.

He also categorically denied taping the St. Louis Rams’ last walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI, and added that he never taped a walk-through, period, as head or assistant coach.

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